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Caption: Holi Hai! A fun insight into the spring festival of colours!
Caption: Ho.li Noun A Hindu spring festival, celebrated in honour of Lord Krishna.
(Pronounced like Holy)
Caption: Different parts of India have different reason as to why they celebrate Holi. For everyone, it marks the advent of spring. Other popular legend says it is the celebration of good over evil, the destruction of a demon named Holika over Prahlada. SIGNIFICANCE
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Caption: The celebrations start the previous day with the Holika bonfire, where people come together to sing, dance and celebrate around the fire.
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Caption: The next morning is a free-for-all carnival of colours. Those who participate can throw colours on each other and have water fights. Everyone is fair game!
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Caption: And it can get crazy.
(Crazy good!)
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Caption: The International Students Assembly (ISA) and Association of Indian Students of University of Southern California held a Holi celebration at the McCarthy Quad on Sunday. _______ And here's how it went.
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Caption: As an unsaid rule, everyone wore white. (So that the colours are visible!)
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Caption: The participants were provided with water pistols...
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Caption: ...and buckets of coloured water!
And thus, the war began.
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Caption: #SlowMoFTW
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Caption: Amidst all the water fights, someone sneaked in powdered colours. And before we knew it, most of us were sporting...
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Caption: The
"Holi-er than thou"
look.
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Caption: To demonstrate, here's a 'before' and 'after' picture.
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